[Hey Nathan, is Daschle actually pursuing some secret progressive agenda here?]
I doubt it, although there are probably some liberal Dems who were happy to pocket MBNA's money for voting for the bill but won't be too unhappy if the GOP kills the bill by holding out against the Senate limits on housing equity and the anti-abortion provisions.
Biden from the stater of MBNA, I mean Delaware, will probably be on the conference committee, so he'll be pushing to save the deal, but Tom Delay and Dick Armey may just help kill it. All I can say is that if Trent Lott had been running the conference committee on the Senate side, they would have happily resolved the issues in favor of the House version- something that the Dems are unlikely to do.
But we'll see.
-- Nathan Newman